nymag.com | 15 June 2011
"We're different people," Perry said last October, perhaps already privately entertaining the possibility of running for president. "We came from different backgrounds. Philosophically, we weren't peas in a pod." But in December of 2000, when Perry was about to take over the governorship from president-elect Bush, he said something that could come back to haunt him. "Certainly, you are not going to see a great philosophical difference between Rick Perry and George Bush," he said. "We share the same type of philosophy." Hard to claim you're nothing like Bush after saying something like that.
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